From freezing to cancellation. The Financial Fair Play (FFP) as we know it may have run its course after just over 10 years. As reported by Gazzetta dello Sport, UEFA will discuss a new system of rules for continental football tomorrow in a videoconference at the European Parliament, which will be very different from the one devised in 2010 by the Platini-Infantino duo.
The basic idea, according to the newspaper, will be the transition from the idea of "spending as much as you take in" to "spending as much as you need without wasting". In light of the need to change the system there are obviously the economic effects of the pandemic, with disastrous figures far more than 2008, and virtually no clubs in line with the parameters.
The new model will therefore focus on waste and exaggeration, because football is in crisis but players' salaries and commissions to agents are not decreasing.
One idea could be the introduction of a salary cap, disguised as a luxury tax to ensure compliance with European regulations: you buy a player, you pay a percentage to be distributed to the system. In addition, sporting sanctions could be reduced in favour of greater economic sanctions.
In any case, it is unlikely that UEFA would want to impose itself on clubs without dialogue. The crisis requires shared action, but it must be done quickly. Not everyone will be happy, but something has to be done to protect the system. Foreign leagues, such as the German and Spanish leagues, which have been implementing stricter rules for some time, are well aware of this.
In Italy, on the other hand, it will be necessary to intervene as hoped by president Gravina, who was the first to launch the idea of a salary cap. The UEFA work has already begun with the aim of achieving approval by the end of the year, with entry into force from 2022, and a period of gradual adaptation, a few years, before going full steam ahead and consolidating better than the previous system.
